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Selina Kyle	It's chilly outside today and Selina is more than happy to hunker down in her apartment, baking gingerbread cookies and playing Christmas music with all the modest decorations - like a simple but real fir tree and a wreath on the front door - adding just a hint of cheer to her little apartment. Shes used to spending her days mostly alone, just her and her cat, this will be the first time in a long time she got to spend it with Spike.
Spike	You'd think a man would be around more with a sexy vixen like Selina in his life. Vampires. What can you do? He did manage to get back to the city though and makes his way back to her door and home.      He lets himself into the apartment and takes a deep breath, smirking at the smell of gingerbread. Christmas music gets a hint of a skeptic look, but he closes the door and eases out of his coat,"Honey, I'm home." That statement is half sarcasm and half sincere in its tone."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle is really getting used to playing cozy vixen, she's even wearing a cute Red and white Christmas apron over her simple black jeans and comfy green sweater. "Hey there handsome, where you been?" she leans in to give him a quick kiss before setting the cookie tray down on the table. "I was starting to wonder if you'd be back in time for Christmas. How did your trip go? I just made these and I've got wine and eggnog in the kitchen too."
Spike	He smirks a little against her lips when the two kiss for a moment,"I like the apron." he tells her softly,"I've been chasing after the rumor of a mutated fish monster that was a high school swim team member. I think I mentioned it back at Halloween, but there was rumor we'd missed one and so off I went." He walks with you when you go to put the cookies down and mutters,"Sorry I didn't give you a heads up. The bad part of being part demon. I don't always think. The trip was good though. Successful at least. Wine sounds like a good switch from off brand bourbon."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle smiles, leading him to the sofa, "No worries, we both have to do what we have to do. I'm sometimes running off without a word too, it's just our nature, I suppose. I would hardly want to keep you chained up in here all the time, although.." she grins wickedly. Selina pushes the tray towards him to try a cookie, and aren't they cute and colorful, all decorated in red and green sprinkles, silver balls and white icing? They smell pretty good too. "Go on, try some, I'll go get the drinks..I gotta say, things were pretty..Interesting while you were gone.."
Spike	"You keep it up and you'll never be rid of me. Chained up has its appeal after all." he teases around one of the gingerbread goodies,"Maybe that's why we do well together. We live our lives and know where home is later." he finally comments. It's almost...poetic. He nods approvingly at the gingerbread goodness,"Cute and very good. Where were you a century and a half ago?" Oh the places that conversation could go. Instead he watches you go towards the drink and curious wins over another bite of gingerbread,"Interesting is usually connected to a story love. Do tell." He settles onto the couch and sits at the front edge of it. Cats don't have the corner on the market for curiosity it seems.
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle is gone for only a moment, pouring herself a glass of eggnog and some dry wine for Spike, bringing both bottles in for more drinks later and sets them all down on the tray with the cookies. "Indeed, I wouldn't mind trying that sometime." she winks, a playful smile crossing her lips. "Soo..A highschool swim team turning into mutant fish? How did that happen..Were these your classmates? Sounds fun." she grins, munching thoughtfully on a cookie that goes so well with the eggnog. There is of course a warm and cozy looking fireplace crackling in the corner too, adding just another homely touch to her generous apartment. Selina does chuckle at the century comment, "Sorry, love, wasn't quite born yet at that time, but you know how it is, the things you need the most come around at just the right time, no sooner, no later."
Spike	"Promises, promises..." he replies and takes the offered wine. The smile is beyond devilish and he winks, settling back into the couch once you do as well. He laughs softly, shaking his head as he replies,"Oh no. That would have been entertaining if it was my class. The deadly fish boy that leaves dust in the ocean." He does look towards the fire now and then. Highly flammable or not, a fireplace is nice in its way. He glances back to her again and muses,"Well, the young Slayer was convinced she was in love with my grand sire, so that has to be pretty accurate." He takes her free hand and kisses the back of it lightly,"What can I tell you love? I've always had a weakness for younger women."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle smiles, letting him kiss her hand, moving it up to gently caress his cheek, "Hmm, sounds like a nice little highschool reunion, you and the Scoobies and.." she arches a brow, "What exactly is a grand sire, anyway?" She smirks, arching a curious brow at him, "Is that so...? How old exactly did you say you are again? One hundred or so?" Selina chuckles, sipping another cookie in her eggnog, "Though to be fair, I always tend to go after older men for some reason..Especially the mysterious ones."
Spike	He leans against the touch a little and smirks,"A sire is the one to turns you. The grand sire would be the one that sired your sire." he explains,"I did run into a few Scoobies when it all started up, but I managed to get away from them. Past in the past, at least that much of the past." Taking a moment to think about the next answer he comments thoughtfully,"I don't really keep track much anymore, after the first century it all looks the same." He looks up a little, feigning doing math problems,"Carry the one..." Of course she knows he's pretty good at that sort of thing actually,"A hundred sventy eight. I think you'll have a very hard time catching anyone older than me love. As for mystery..." there is a shrug.
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle blinks slowly, "Hmm, I see..Soo she's in love with the one who turned you? That's gotta be...Complicated." she doesn't chuckle a bit, teasing his hair playfully, "My my, you're almost 200 years old? Well you sure aged well, didn't you?"r Selina shrugs, "Well, I've never dated a vampire before so there is no comparison."
Spike	"Drucilla sired me. Angel sired Dru. Buffy was all in love with Angel and sure he was her one and only. Well, she was. That seems to have passed. I guess the love of people in this century doesn't run quite as deep." He shrugs and shakes his head,"As for complicated it is very much that. Dru and I were together a very long time. Angel and I were never friends. He annoyed me by existing. I annoyed him..." he pauses at that thought, taking a drink of wine,"...because he a poofter and because I didn't have anything better to do." He smirks again and nudges her gently,"I like to think I did. Age well that is. I haven't had too many to judge considering Dru and I being so long together and really nobody real since her until you. I'll have to make sure I keep it interesting for you."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle smirks, "Wow and the plot thickens..I wonder if I'd care much for this Drusilla, whom you probably spent many years with. Why did you two split up, dare I ask?" she shrugs, "Well, I like to think compatibility is more important than age in all honesty. Although I'm afraid I probably won't be around for hundreds of years. But I'm sure we'll make the most of what time we have together although I can only hope I age as gracefully as you.." she seems almost a bit..Jealous. But then she's not so keen on being a vamp either.
Spike	"I loved Dru and she loved me, but she was..." he considers,"...I think the kids call it bat shit crazy." he finally admits,"She put the laughter in slaughter and the hot in psychotic." Not so poetic and yet still a bit. "Dru and I were crazy together in our way. She could see things others couldn't. Before she was sired she was mildly psychic, and got stronger after. Angel made her is project, wanted her to be a special art of his I guess."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle hmms, "I see..Sounds like you two have a lot of history together." she's. not jealous. Not really.Afterall, it's in the past now, isn't it? "Soo the three of you travelled around for a century or something? What changed? You got a chip and were forced to be a good boy? Drusilla dumped you for that?" Not a big loss though, if she was insane and evil and likely a terrible influence on him, "This Angel doesn't sound like a great guy either. How'd he and Buffy end up together?"
Spike	"A century and then some." he admits in the bit about history,"There were four of us, wandering together. Angel's sire Darla. Angel or Angelus as he was called then. Then Dru and me. Oldest to youngest." He smirks at that little shot at the others. "The chip came more recently. Dru left when she decided I loved the Slayer and she started dating people just to make me jealous. A chaos demon was the last one I remember. After that, we just stayed away." There is a soft laugh and he chomps on the last of the first gingerbread man and sighs,"Angelus was a piece of work for sure. He was the typical kill the world type. Then he killed a gypsy woman. After years of murder and mayhem, somebody got tired of his antics. The gypsies didn't kill him, though the could have. Instead they took the demon soul out of him and pushed the human soul back in. A conscience and remorse with all the memories of what Angelus had done. At first it was funny. After that...it just got tired."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle hmms, munching thoughtfully on another cookie. "Wow, that's pretty messed up. And the Slayer seems to be in the thick of it all. She must be quite the girl." Again, no jealousy there, only curiosity. "I wonder what is so special about this Buffy that she basically broke up the four of you and continues to haunt you all?" She smiles in amusement, idly stroking his hair as she thinks.
Spike	"He didn't meet Buffy until many years after his was cursed with his soul." Spike explains, taking another gingerbread goodie. His eyes lower a lids a little at her touch and continues,"Angel got his soul back before the Boxer Rebellion. He wandered off after Darla cast him away. Dru and I came and went as we pleased." "He fell in love with Buffy a few years back, but it wasn't meant to be. Apparently she likes White Court vampires better." Spike comments with a shake of his head,"I haven't seen any of them for a long time. I couldn't look at Dru straight with her making out with all snot slime that oozed off of him."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle laughs, "Ooh now there's a white court vampire involved? What is that, even? Sounds like she's got a very complicated history. What, she got tired of tall dark and vampire with a soul already?" she smirks in amusement, "I guess my adventure was pretty tame in comparison...And I thought I had troubles with the Punisher on my tail, potential,y."
Spike	"White Court vampire. The so called psychic vampire. They feed on emotions. The feeding causes pleasure, so better emotions." he comments,"That's what little I know about them anyway. Good or bad, they feed on it drawing a little bit of the person more each time." He shakes his head and admits,"I might have been a blood drinking monster, but I own it. I still need blood of course, but it's different now. As for Buffy. Who knows what goes on in her head?" he looks intersted in what you say instantly, no longer interested in his story. Look at her making him think of something other than himself,"The Punisher? Ex soldier bloke that wages war on crime? Most people say he's a myth." A shrug and he takes another drink,"Of course, you live with and share a bed with a myth so I guess we should both know better."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle arches a brow, "White court vampire? Do I even want to know? Wait a sec, I think I met this guy, gorgeous, sexy..Just a touch sends shivers? I think he mentioned Buffy being his girlfriend.." she shrugs, "What a crazy messed up girl.." But of course that's no longer her business. "Hmm, The Punisher is no myth..And he's brutally efficient. I'm afraid I actually froze up, didn't help one of the CatLady's victims..I'd rather not cross paths with him again.." She shivers, truly disturbed, "I watched him brutally and efficiently murder three of her henchmen without hesitation.."
Spike	"That sounds like Thomas Wraith. The less you know the better off you are." he tells you, taking another drink of the wine and considering,"Overall he's a good hand and a solid bloke. We just have...issues." He considers and then laughs softly, shaking his head,"Well, we had issues. I could care less if those two happily ever after or not." He chuckles softly and adds,"He might still be annoyed I punched him in his pretty face, but he'll get over it." The talk about the Punisher does get his attention again though and he nods,"Hard core Marine mentality that one." Another cookie is grabbed,"He's a killer for sure from what I hear. I'd be real careful being around him. I mean I could, but he wouldn't really know how to kill me. Filling me full of bullets is about like getting multiple bee stings without the side effect of the toxin attacking my body."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle chuckles and shrugs, "Ah yes, we met in passing. Nice guy..So he's the one the Slayer chose.." she arches a curious brow at the 'issues' part but doesn't press the issue. Afterall, Selina is sure that this Buffy is at the crux of their issues, as she seems to be the focal point of a lot of drama that goes on in Bludhaven. "I see..Well isn't that interesting.." she smiles as she pulls in closer to him, resting her head against his shoulder and sighs tiredly. At any rate she is more co corned about what's going on right now. "Indeed, that's why I kept my distance. But now that he's aware of the Cat lady, he's likely to strike again..And since there is still another brain washed victim out there..Not to mention a veritable prize to be won if we find and rAnd her headquarters, I imagine we haven't seen the last of him.." and that has her clearly worried.
Spike	"She chose him yes." he agrees softly and shakes his head,"If she likes him slowly draining her life out through her emotions that's on her." He slips his arm around her as she leans against him,"Be wary, a lot of the itme the White Court types are friendly because they are looking for the next meal. Of course, that could be pot and kettle since that's how most of my type work as well." "Watch your back with him. Maybe you need to cover your tracks more than usual. It might not be a bad idea to have a bolt hole to hide in if things get crazy. I don't have one per say, but again with the bullets." He takes another drink of wine and considers thoughtfully,"The brain washed and the prize in the headquarters are too much to ignore. We just need to be mindful of moving shadows where there shouldn't be."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle smiles, "After meeting him, I get the feeling it's more than simply...Energy.." she shrugs, "So are you concerned for her well-being then? Afterall, I wouldn't be surprised if it bothered you that she was willingly letting him feed off of her." she shrugs, more concerned about Spike than his fascination with the Slayer. Realky, she's not a jealous type. As for the Punisher, Selina nods, "You're right, git to watch my back, fix up a safe place just in case. I have been amassing some..Potential allies.."
Spike	"Emotions feed him the energy. The contact is a high unlike anything as I understand it." he comments thoughtfully,"I am concerned about her well being to a point, but it's her life to do what he wants. There are those that let my kind feed on them for the feeling and the rush of it. It's one fix or another." "You want me to see if I can flush him out. Try to track him down. Maybe I can find a way to throw him off your trail? I don't know that I could, but I might be able to make his life difficult. The chip prevents me from killing him outright, but..." He pauses and kisses her head gently,"...getting used to having you around."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle arches a brow and frowns a bit, even as she snuggles up to him. Selina should really let this go, but she's a curious kitty. "Soo...You think she's just in it for an emotional high and he doesn't really love her like you would have." Selina shrugs, "Well if you ask me, sounds like she lost out. You didn't prey on her like a leech the way he does. I feel sorry for her honestly, getting used by that leech. But it doesn't really matter, we both know I'm way better for you." She smiles wickedly as she climbs into his lap, "It's alright, I know about your handicap..He would take advantage of that. The Punisher is a clever man and I'd rather just stay out of his way if possible. But I appreciate it.." She frowns, "Speaking of..I wonder how things are going with Lex..?"
Spike	"I think Thomas loves in his way, but in the same sense she's dinner." Spike comments finally. He shrugs and gets another gingerbread and starts to chew it thoughtfully,"As far as her losing out. I'm glad she did." he admits finally and kisses the side of her head,"It made room for the sexy cat that I found or rather found me." When she slides into his lap his hands go around her waist and rest lightly at the small of her back,"You know I have your back whenever love." he mutters softly and leans forward to kiss her throat lightly,"As for Lex. I got side tracked and we haven't met again since. I have my doubts about wanting to owe him more than what he said. I don't know. I want it gone for sure, but I've read some up on Lex Luther. The more I read, the more things are insinuated, and the less I think there is wisdom in working with him. We'll see."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle shivers at the thought. "Ew, I dunno about that. I mean, it seems kind of selfish to me. Leeching off of her like that? Call me selfish, but I don't think I'd be comfortable if you were to say, feed off of me, instead of drinking from those blood bags. Even if it might give me some kind of twisted high.." she smirks. The kissing of the throat causes her to purr a bit, leaning in to nuzzle against his shoulder. "Mm, you got that right, love, I'm the best thing in your life so far." Selina grins, "However, I wonder if we can trust Lex?"
Spike	"There is a certain rush to it yes. My way I mean, but not something you'd want repeatedly I don't think." he agrees with you,"Some do like I said, but I doubt either would be appealing, my way or the White Court." He nods as he adds,"The trick the the White Court, it is as addictive as any drug. Imagine the best sex you ever had, multiply it by a thousand. Well, that's what I hear anyway. No personal experience. There is the survival of the vampire of course, but still." "No question who the best is." he agrees playfully. He shakes his head and admits,"As for Lex, I don't trust much of anybody anymore." He reaches up to touch her cheek lightly,"Present company excepted."
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle laughs, "I'm sure, didn't you once mention how some people will deliberately let vampires feed on them just to get a high? I imagine it's quite..Exciting, if you don't let them go overboard..if you're into that sort of thing. I dunno.." As for these white court vamps, that does cause her to frown a bit. "Hm, I suppose I can see the appeal in the too, but in the end you'd probably become dependant on that person and lose yourself. I'm not too keen on that.." Then there's the matter of Lex and she nods and sighs, "It's really too bad, but I can't think of anyone better to help you..I guess it comes down to how desperate you are to get rid of that chip." she chuckles at his response, playfully tickling him. "But of course love."
Spike	"Not something I could have seen myself do even at my lowest point." he admits about the bite fettish,"The old me was pretty weak and the bite wasn't a good time no matter how you look at it." He smiles a little bit and admits,"I don't think I would want anything to do with the White Court. The best of it, you are a mindless addict that gets their fix without chemicals." A moment of consideration more and he adds,"Luthor is an expert in his field and knows more in all the fields. I haven't closed the idea completely, but I am going to look around a little bit maybe." He smirks a little as he gets tickled,"Hey now." Who would have thought the vampire was ticklish?
Selina Kyle	Selina Kyle nods and sighs, "Geez, some people will do anything to get their fixes I guess..Even if it means destroying themselves in the process." she shrugs, "I suppose I am a hypocrite. Before I got into thievery, I was a call girl ,and you can believe the kind of creeps I met in that line of work. They were addicted to sex, addicted to me, they'd do all sorts of..Wrong things, just to get a high. Sure glad i'm out of that work.." She shrugs and nods, "Yes, Lex is an extremely gifted and intelligent man..But he can be pretty self-serving. That's what worries me. But I know how much being free of that chip means to you. I wonder what other avenues there are?"